The Death of Atheism is Premature

I haven’t written about atheism in a while. A long while. I don’t know why. Maybe because I have nothing more to say about being an atheist. A decade (or so) ago, it seemed (to me, at least) that atheism was all the rage, notably among young people (high school, believe it or not) and it was looking, to me, that the next generation of non-believers was on the cusp. Then, like all fads, it was something that passed like a bowel movement. Honestly, the way things were going, I’m actually happy the trend died out. And not slowly and painfully, but quickly and extremely traumatically for some. But I do miss some of the real activism that occurred during those days.

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The Atheist Identity

It may(or may not) surprise you to discover that most atheists are men. According to Pew, about two-thirds of people that identify as atheist (I think that includes agnostic as well) are men and the other one-third consists of the other 71 genders. Okay, a poor joke. Of course, it’s women. Why is that? It’s a question that has been asked by a lot of different people over time and no actual consensus has ever been made. There are some ideas as to why this is true, but none that seems to satisfy those that believe in the strict equality of the sexes (or genders).

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Are Atheists Really Agnostics?

I don’t think too much about being an atheist. For me, it is what it is. When someone asks me what I believe, I tell them, matter-of-factly, that I am an atheist and do not believe in any gods. Note the key word there is believe. It is a verb, which describes an action, in this case, accepting something being true. What does this really say? It says that I don’t know for sure there are no gods, I just don’t believe there are. I don’t think anyone knows for certain whether there is a god or gods and that would make us all…agnostic, wouldn’t it?

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Losing Your Belief

I really never realized how much content existed on youTube. By that I mean, the variety. Inn the past, I used YouTube to find out how to make some home or automotice repair. I never really thought of it as a source of education or entertainment, even though I knew people that did. Recently I have discovered how much I’ve been missong. ill probably write more about it in the fiture but right now I want to focus on one particular topic: Atheism.

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Leaving the Path of Righteousness, For Your Sake

It’s really not difficult to be skeptical. Most of us are about one thing or another. Think about it. I happen to be skeptical about one more think than the average person and for some reason, a lot of people want to set people that think the way I do, apart. I do not choose to defend that which, to me, indefensible. It doesn’t matter how much anyone attempts to interpret the ancient languages in which the belief was initially transmitted or how painfully the interpolation is made for an event completely out of context. No explicit meaning is just that and anything beyond nothing more than magical thinking.

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